A Tory big beast today accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of “riding roughshod” over opposition to housing Channel migrants at the Dambusters’ RAF base.
The Government wants to place refugees at the mothballed RAF Scampton base in Lincolnshire.
The airfield was where Lancasters from Bomber Command’s 617 Squadron led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson launched their famous “bouncing bomb” raid on the dams of the Ruhr Valley in May 1943, immortalised in the 1955 film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave.
